What makes a family give lunchables for lunch every day?

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People on this thread need to read Glucose Revolution.

I can’t imagine that any educated person would feed a child lunchables. Crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

I don't vilify sugar, only added sugar in foods that have no business of having sugar, like bread, tomato sauce, etc. Making oatmeal with whole milk and a bit of butter helps to make it more filling! It's a once a week breakfast for us, to add variety.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

True…

People are seriously just lazy now and want to do as little work as humanly possible.

That’s me. I’m seriously lazy. I’ll do anything to make my life easier. I do overnight oats so I don’t have to cook in the morning. Love me some instant pot and sheet pan meals. My husband grills a ton with is super easy too.

Putting in tons of effort doesn’t necessarily make one a better parent.

What a dumb thing to say. It is not “lazy” to shop for ingredients and take the time to prepare them. Using time-saving conveniences like Instacart, instapot does not make you “lazy” because you have at least met the bare minimum of at-home healthful cooking. No one expects parents, especially working parents to serve up three-hour three-course meals.

PP here and my kids enjoy lunchables occasionally and we have the Aldi version of unusable in our freezer as we speak!

If it is occasional then whatever, we all have our indulgences (though I would rather have mine be fancy desserts or wine than frozen processed filler crap). If it is regular then yeah, you are indeed lazy.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a very wealthy family (private school, $3m home) with a nanny for their three school-aged kids.

Stupidity. Neglect. Ignorance. Step-parent.

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I know a family like that. The mother is not particularly conscientious and is doing the best she can while keeping her head above water. She’s dealing with a lot and seems to be on her own despite her nannies and having family geographically nearby.

So she resorts to what is easy and the kid won’t complain about. The father is passive and raised by nannies.

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I made homemade baby food when my kids were babies. My daughter ate fresh veggies and fruits and anything you put in front of her until she was 3. Then she slowly started dropping foods and then food groups.

At age 8, she is still an extremely picky eater. For fruit, she only eats apples without skins and an occasional smoothie. However, these can’t be packed in a lunch because she only eats or drinks them fresh, not after they have been sitting for a few hours. In early elementary, her school didn’t have a cafeteria so you had to bring a lunch. She likes hot foods like pasta which are hard to pack in a lunch. I used to pack healthy foods in her lunch but she refused to eat and the teacher said she was starving. After a while, I gave up. She was basically drinking milk and eating snack foods everyday because it was the only thing she would eat. I made sure to give her a more substantive dinner and get her to eat breakfast but lunch was junk. I decided calories to get her through the day was more important. Sometimes we packed lunchables.

My house is filled with fresh fruits and vegetables. I don’t eat any junk food. But I have a kid that will starve herself if she doesn’t have preferred foods. I have to pick my battles. Don’t judge.

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

Yes they are engineered to be so, with a bunch of crap ingredients.

It's peanut butter and jam

Bread: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Dough Conditioner (enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Contains One Or More Of The Following: Mono And Diglycerides, Datem, Salt). Peanut Butter: Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt. Grape Jelly: Sugar, Grape Juice, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Pectin, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative).

It's the same ingredients in bread, peanut butter and jam.

It's also like other PP who have said that what makes a cold cut with crackers better than lunchable

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt.

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Anonymous wrote:In OP’s mind, Lunchables are for a certain class of people. OP is perturbed because the Lunchable parents aren’t acting how she expects them to act based on their socioeconomic status. Bless her heart, she probably aspires to their status and here they are spoiling it with Lunchables.

What's funny about this is the fact that Lunchables are expensive. So are Uncrustables. (I'm not against either one; my kid loves Uncrustables, so do I)

Humans have hit an all time high laziness. BP&J is the world’s easiest sandwich to make. But no. Let’s buy overpriced frozen ones in a box- I’m just too busy on DCUM for sandwich making

Spoken like someone who has never had an uncrustable! They're tasty.

Yes they are engineered to be so, with a bunch of crap ingredients.

It's peanut butter and jam

Bread: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Dough Conditioner (enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Contains One Or More Of The Following: Mono And Diglycerides, Datem, Salt). Peanut Butter: Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt. Grape Jelly: Sugar, Grape Juice, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Pectin, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative).

It's the same ingredients in bread, peanut butter and jam.

It's also like other PP who have said that what makes a cold cut with crackers better than lunchable

Are you ignorant?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt.

Yes it is. But clearly you have no idea about the food you eat. So carry on

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt.

Yes it is. But clearly you have no idea about the food you eat. So carry on

So you can’t explain how homemade is better. No surprise there.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt.

Yes it is. But clearly you have no idea about the food you eat. So carry on

So you can’t explain how homemade is better. No surprise there.

If someone is willfully blind you can’t make them see. You can bring it up, but if they refuse to open their eyes then it is time to stop wasting your time on them (as the rest of the world likely has or will).

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Anonymous wrote:My parents let me have every kind of junk food imaginable when I was a kid. As an adult, I barely eat anything junky. I joke that it's because I was "sugared out" by the time I hit 18, but really, it was more that once I could make better choices for myself, I made them.

The 70s were all canned food and 80s and 90s about junk foods. 90s saw more emphasis on fresh foods thanks to California Cuisine, but we’ve got a ways to go.

Also, I don’t know how organic fresh vegetables became linked with rich white people. Small scale farmers and home plots were how poor folks got by and fed their families. Everyone should be eating fresh produce!

It’s tougher in the city or suburbs. Supermarkets carry both organic and non organic produce. They look the exact same but organic is much more expensive.

This is hilarious. Poor people, rich people, all people have largely moved away from cooking their own foods, let alone the work of growing food and gardening. It’s packaged crap and fast food. 9/10, even on limited income, if given a choice between rolling through the McD drive-thru and getting the 2/$3 McMuffins or making a real bowl of oatmeal ($3 for an entire canister of 30 servings), McD will be the choice.

Well yeah, oatmeal is quick and easy but DISGUSTING. I used to literally have to force myself to eat flavoured oatmeal in the morning. I’d much rather had a muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. Regardless of if it was homemade or mcdonalds. But whereas at home its going to take 20+ minutes to make, it will take 5 minutes AT MOST at mcdonalds.

Tastier and faster is going to win any day of the week for 90% of households.

I think oatmeal is delicious. Your opinion is not fact.

An egg, sausage and cheese sandwich also doesn’t take 20+ minutes to make, unless you’re including making the sausage from scratch in that time.

I don't care how long it takes to make, I don't make it for health reasons. Oatmeal is much heart-healthier. When I'm feeling indulgent I'll order a BEC from my local bagel place. But as a regular breakfast, no.

The thing with oatmeal though is that most people add sugar to it. Are your kids really eating oatmeal with zero sugar? I wouldn’t be able to get my kids to eat that but they’d scarf down nearly any kind of sandwhich.

For me personally too I find oatmeal without sugar to be pretty unpalatable.

I’d rather get protein/fat/salt from the sandwich than the fiber with sugar of the oatmeal. I think sugar is worse for heart health than fat.

It isn’t the fat that is bad, it is the processed meat. So yes, I’d rather my kids have a bowl of oatmeal with some raisins (or any fruit) and walnuts and a small drizzle of maple syrup and some milk.

PP here. I mean we are quibbling here but I think an egg and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread would be better than oatmeal with straight sugar (maple syrup/sugar/honey are all the same nutritionally). The egg and cheese sandwich would keep me and my kids fuller for much longer than oatmeal, which would create a blood sugar spike and crash.

Not sure why you are arguing. The whole point is people/parents have become lazy and have stopping cooking and preparing real food.
But rather settling on convenience foods for majority of meals.

An egg and cheese on Eng muffin is a great breakfast. So is oatmeal. The point is it only takes a few minutes
to put together something nutritious. All the fast food and package crap people consume under the veil of being so busy is sad

+1. If you make it at home, and not with bacon/sausage every day, it is fine. With the fast food variety, who knows what crap they are putting in it

Go look at the ingredients in an egg McMuffin and get back to me. It’s no different than what you make. Unless you’re making your own English muffins, which I highly doubt.

Yes it is. But clearly you have no idea about the food you eat. So carry on

So you can’t explain how homemade is better. No surprise there.

If someone is willfully blind you can’t make them see. You can bring it up, but if they refuse to open their eyes then it is time to stop wasting your time on them (as the rest of the world likely has or will).

Might I suggest oatmeal?